Hi, we're Oscar. We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure / SRE to join our Engineering team.
About the role:Our Core Technology teams build and maintain the foundational platform upon which all Oscar engineering is built. We are responsible for architecting a world-class, resilient ecosystem using a modern stack centered on AWS/GCP, Terraform, and Kubernetes with developer focused tooling and CI/CD. Our mission is to provide an automated, self-service infrastructure that empowers our engineering organization to move fast without sacrificing security or stability.
You will report into a Staff/Senior Staff Engineer.
Work Location: This is a remote position, open to candidates who reside in: San Francisco, CA. You will be fully remote; however, our approach to work may adapt over time. Future models could potentially involve a hybrid presence at the hub office associated with your metro area. #LI-Remote
Pay Transparency: The base pay for this role is: $180,504 - $236,911 per year. You are also eligible for employee benefits, participation in Oscar's unlimited vacation program, company equity grants, and annual performance bonuses.
Responsibilities:- Become the expert on your team's business and technical domains such as DevOps, site reliability, and cloud best practices
- Lead the planning, execution and release of complex technical projects across multiple teams outside of Core Technology
- Work with partners, product managers, and designers to solve challenging problems
- Lead and mentor engineers on the team to improve technology and apply best practices
- Independently responsible for large or complex technology capabilities (set of components or services) within their team's domain or spanning multiple domains
- Facilitates, encourages, and enhances cross-team execution and collaboration; knows when cross-team projects are at risk and actively mitigates risk to deliver on time
- Prolific contributor to the objectives of their functional group, as well as organization-wide projects
- Drives prioritization of technical roadmap and influences prioritization of product roadmap and process enhancements within their team
- Actively identifies and reduces failure domains, designs and builds resilient systems, and strives to reduce adverse effects of an outage.
- Builds software to minimize effort and business impact during maintenance and failures
- Guides the development of Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) for systems they are responsible for
- Own medium to large features or infrastructure projects from technical design through completion
- Compliance with all applicable laws and regulations
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements:- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, working with a variety of technologies, and have increasingly impactful accomplishments
- Experience as a major contributor cross-pod or cross-company deliverables
- Experience leading technical contributions, improving the quality of what your teams create, and are excited to build fault-tolerant, and scalable software systems.
- Demonstrates expertise of the practical application of CS concepts within their team.
- Sets and enforces the standard for writing stable, correct, and maintainable code
- Experience mentoring and training more junior engineers
Bonus points:- Cloud Proficiency: Deep expertise in managing production environments within AWS or GCP at scale.
- Infrastructure as Code: Advanced experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools to manage complex, multi-account structures.
- Orchestration & Delivery: Proven track record with Kubernetes and workflows using ArgoCD.
- SRE Discipline: Strong background in Site Reliability Engineering, including Service Level Objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and incident management.
- CI/CD & Automation: Experience building robust deployment pipelines via GitHub Actions.
- Observability: Proficiency with monitoring using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or similar.
- Security & Networking: Knowledge of cloud-native security (IAM, VPC peering) and service mesh technologies like Istio.
- Programming: Understanding of at least one coding language that you are able to use to develop scripts and software
- Education: B.S. in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent high-level industry experience.
This is an authentic Oscar Health job opportunity.
Pay Transparency: Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education, and experience. Full-time employees are eligible for benefits including: medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, paid sick time, paid parental leave, 401(k) plan participation, life and disability insurance, and paid wellness time and reimbursements.
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